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Authored Books

Strauss, Julia (2019) State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Strauss, Julia (1998) Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Strauss, Julia and Armony, Ariel C., eds. (2012) From the Great Wall to the New World: China and Latin America in the 21st Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues; Vol. 11)

Evans, Harriet and Strauss, Julia, eds. (2011) Gender in Flux: Agency and its Limits in Contemporary China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues; Vol. 10)

Strauss, Julia and Saavedra, Martha, eds. (2009) China and Africa: Emerging Patterns of Globalization and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues)

Strauss, Julia, ed. (2007) The History of the People’s Republic of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues)

Strauss, Julia and Cruise O'Brien, Donal, eds. (2007) Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa. London: I.B. Tauris. (International library of political studies, v. 18)

Hockx, Michel and Strauss, Julia, eds. (2005) Culture in the Contemporary PRC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (China Quarterly Special Issues, New Series, no. 6)

Book Chapters

Strauss, Julia (2023) 'Pockets of Effectiveness: Afterwards and New Beginnings.' In: Hickey, Sam, (ed.), Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 235-244.

Strauss, Julia (2021) 'Scripts, Authority, and Legitimacy.' In: Rai, Shirin M., Gluhovic, Milija, Jestrovic, Silvija and Saward, Michael, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 405-420.

Strauss, Julia (2019) 'Layered Rhetorics and Multiple Realities: China and Africa.' In: Hartmann, Christof and Noesselt, Nele, (eds.), China's New Role in African Politics: From Non-intervention towards Stabilization. London: Routledge.

Strauss, Julia (2017) 'Campaigns of Redistribution: Land Reform and State Building in China and Taiwan, 1950-53.' In: Centeno, Miguel, Kohli, Atul and Yashar, Deborah J., (eds.), States in the Developing World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 339-362.

Strauss, Julia (2014) 'Terror, Revolution and the Consolidation of Leninist Regimes.' In: Smith, Stephen A., (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks in History)

Strauss, Julia (2014) 'Communism and Political Terror.' In: Smith, Stephen A., (ed.), The Oxford Handbook on the History of Communism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks in History)

Strauss, Julia (2013) 'Pockets of Effectiveness: Lessons from the Long 20th century in China and Taiwan.' In: Roll, Michael, (ed.), The Politics of Public Sector Performance: Pockets of Effectiveness in Developing Countries. Abingdon; New York: Routledge.

Strauss, Julia (2013) 'From Feeding the Army to Nourishing the People: The Impact of Wartime Mobilization and Institutions on Grain Supply in Post-1949 Su’nan and Taiwan.' In: Cwiertka, Katarzyna J., (ed.), Food and War in Mid-Twentieth-Century East Asia. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 73-92.

Strauss, Julia and Armony, Ariel C. (2012) 'Introduction. From Going Out (zou chuqu) to Arriving In (desembarco): Constructing a New Field of Inquiry in China-Latin America Interactions.' In: Strauss, Julia and Armony, Ariel C., (eds.), From the Great Wall to the New World: China and Latin America in the 21st Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 134-156. (The China Quarterly Special Issues New Series; Vol. 11)

Evans, Harriet and Strauss, Julia (2011) 'Introduction: gender, agency and social change.' In: Evans, Harriet and Strauss, Julia, (eds.), Gender in Flux: Agency and its Limits in Contemporary China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-10. (The China Quarterly Special Issues; Vol. 10)

Strauss, Julia and Saavedra, Martha (2009) 'Introduction: China, Africa and internationalization.' In: Strauss, Julia and Saavedra, Martha, (eds.), China and Africa: Emerging Patterns of Globalization and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues)

Strauss, Julia (2009) 'Traitors, Terror and Regime Consolidation on the Two Sides of the Taiwan Straits: ‘Revolutionaries’ and “Reactionaries’ from 1949 to 1956.' In: Thiranagama, Sharika and Kelly, Tobias, (eds.), Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy and the Ethics of State Building. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 89-109.

Strauss, Julia (2008) 'Rethinking Institutional Capacity and Tax Regimes: The Case of the Sino-Foreign Salt Inspectorate in Republican China.' In: Brautigam, Deborah, Fjeldstad, Odd and Moore, Mick, (eds.), Taxation and State Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 212-234.

Tripp, Charles (2007) ''In the Name of the People'. The 'People's Court' and the Iraqi Revolution (1958-1960).' In: Strauss, Julia and Cruise O'Brien, Donal, (eds.), Staging Politics. Power and Performance in Asia and Africa. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 31-48.

Strauss, Julia and O'Brien, Donal B Cruise (2007) 'Introduction to Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa.' In: Strauss, Julia and Cruise O'Brien, Donal, (eds.), Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa. London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 1-14. (International library of political studies, v. 18)

Strauss, Julia (2007) 'Introduction: In Search of PRC History.' In: Strauss, Julia, (ed.), The History of the People’s Republic of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues)

Strauss, Julia (2007) 'Morality, Coercion and State Building by Campaign in the Early PRC: Regime Consolidation and After, 1949–1956.' In: Strauss, Julia, (ed.), The History of the People’s Republic of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The China Quarterly Special Issues)

Heder, Stephen (2007) 'Political Theatre in the 2003 Cambodian Elections. State, Democracy and Conciliation in Historical Perspective.' In: Strauss, Julia and Cruise O'Brien, Donal, (eds.), Staging Politics. Power and Performance in Asia and Africa. Richmond: I.B. Tauris, pp. 151-172.

Fell, Dafydd (2007) 'Putting on a Show and Electoral Fortunes in Taiwan's Multi-Party Elections.' In: Strauss, Julia and Cruise O'Brien, Donal, (eds.), Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa. London: IB Taurus, pp. 133-150.

Strauss, Julia (2002) 'Strategies of Guomindang Institution Building: Rhetoric and Implementation in Wartime Xunlian.' In: Bodenhorn, T., (ed.), Defining Modernity. Guomindang Rhetorics of a New China, 1920-1970. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, pp. 195-221. (Michigan monographs in Chinese studies, 97)

Journal Article

Strauss, Julia (2019) 'Of Silk Roads and Global Transformations: China’s Rise and its Impact on the Developing World.' The China Quarterly, 239. pp. 804-812.

Strauss, Julia (2019) 'Contours and Templates: Assessing the Re-assessments of May Fourth.' Twentieth Century China, 44 (2). pp. 253-258.

Strauss, Julia (2013) 'China and Africa Rebooted: Globalization(s), Simplification(s), and Cross-cutting Dynamics in “South–South” Relations.' African Studies Review, 56 (1). pp. 155-170.

Strauss, Julia (2012) 'Framing and Claiming: Contemporary Globalization and “Going Out” in China's Rhetoric towards Latin America.' The China Quarterly, 209. pp. 134-156.

Strauss, Julia (2009) 'Forestry Reform and the Transformation of State Capacity in fin-de-siècle China.' Journal of Asian Studies, 68 (4). pp. 1163-1188.

Strauss, Julia (2009) 'The Past in the Present: Historical and Rhetorical Lineages in China’s Relations with Africa.' The China Quarterly, 199. pp. 777-795.

Strauss, Julia (2006) 'Morality, Coercion and State Building by Campaign in the Early PRC: Regime Consolidation and After, 1949-1956.' The China Quarterly, 188 (1). pp. 891-912.

Hockx, Michel and Strauss, Julia (2005) 'Introduction to The China Quarterly Volume 183.' The China Quarterly, 183. pp. 523-531.

Strauss, Julia (2003) 'Creating 'Virtuous and Talented' Officials for the Twentieth Century: Discourse and Practice in Xinzheng China.' Modern Asian Studies, 37 (4). pp. 831-850.

Strauss, Julia (2002) 'Paternalist Terror: The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries and Regime Consolidation in the People's Republic of China, 1950-1953.' Comparative Studies in Society and History, 44 (1). pp. 80-105.

Strauss, Julia (1997) 'The Evolution of Republican Government.' China Quarterly, 150. pp. 329-351.

Strauss, Julia (1997) 'Xingzheng Sanlianzhi (The triple linked system) and Xunlian (Training): Modes of Government Administration during the Sino-Japanese War.' Bulletin of the Chinese Society for Military History Studies, 3. pp. 565-596.

Strauss, Julia (1994) 'Symbol and Reflection of the Reconstituting State: The Examination Yuan in the 1930s.' Modern China, 20 (2). pp. 211-238.

Book Reviews

Strauss, Julia (2023) 'Review of: Linking Theory with Practice? Cadre Training and Environmental Governance in China. By Julia Marinaccio. Munich: Oekom. 174 pp. ISBN: 9783962383299.' The Journal of Asian Studies, 82 (4). pp. 700-701.

Strauss, Julia (2019) 'Review, Chang Jui-te, Wusheng de Yaojue: Jiang Jieshi de Shicong shi yu Zhanshi Zhongguo.' Frontiers of History in China, 14 (3). pp. 463-466.